Today’s hike was less mountain climbing and more rural towns and trails: our first day on easy trails marked by yellow signs rather than the red and white trails denoting difficult. It is very interesting to walk through, up and down the narrow villages with wooden buildings probably 500-years-old mixed in with contemporary. Fortunately the yellow trail signs are ubiquitous both inside the villages and out on the trails, anywhere there’s a fork in the road there is generally a yellow trail sign pointing the direction you might want to go.

Just to be certain, Stanna pulls out her iPhone and checks the Kindle version of the hiking guide to make sure we’re on the right track. Kev, the author of the trailguide, has evidently walked every mile or kilometer of this trip because he knows all the forks and can tell you just when a decision is going to come up. His remarks about this particular day’s walk is that is it is “more of the every day life of the Swiss”, because we were walking through farmland and thru some industrial areas like quarries. We still had quite a bit of it elevation loss and then significant gain to Verbier.

Tonight we are once again in a hotel but this one with a beautiful balcony overlooking the entire town, which is a famous Swiss ski town probably an equal to Vail Colorado. Interesting to note, we heard that this is the end of the season, but this is the first time we’ve been in large hotel where we’re
the only guests for the night. They are sending us to a restaurant across the street for half board dinner as their dining room is closed.